Word: self-help
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...privilege of signing for 14 and 10 meal contracts at a reduced price or they had to submit to a self service system, Both the Crimson and the Council recoiled horrified at the idea of the undergraduates sacrificing their rights and luxuries, and when the Council put the questions up to a College vote, the students voted against both measures. Only about a third favored the compulsory 21 meal rate and a mere 10 per cent liked the self-help system...
...bill was brought out in the House of Commons for its third and final reading. It was defended by President of the Board of Education Herwald Ramsbotham, an old school tie from Uppingham. Said he: "There is no intention of bolstering up decaying institutions. ... If this measure of self-help were refused, there would be a risk of losing ... a great national inheritance...
...thundering German bombers methodically attacked British civilians for the fourth successive week of heavy air raids, the people of London began to see themselves as a sort of army of non-fighters who must take their punishment and hold -with self-help and Government help. Among the other millions of London housewives who no longer bother with hats or have lost them amid the debris of smashed homes, Mrs. Winston Churchill tied a spotted scarf over her head and went about the streets with the Prime Minister. "Now, there's a lydy for you!" chirped an appreciative cockney...
...Self-Help. Actually London tube stations had already become the chief centres where the civilian army encamped. In the Swiss Cottage tube station Londoners who now sleep there nightly on payment of the usual subway fee of three ha'pence (about 3?) last week began turning out their own typed news sheet, The Swiss Cottager. "There's too much litter at the all clear," said The Cottager. "Dustbins are provided! Please heed this request-our last and only territorial demand...
Public Service. A $500 gold medal was awarded to the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune for its news reports and editorials which started a movement for self-help among victims of the dust bowl. To the Edmonton (Alberta) Journal went a special bronze plaque for leadership in defense of a free press in the Province of Alberta...